Beyond the rights and wrongs of the images themselves, we should be asking if it is fair that photographers might find themselves losing out financially to systems that are only made possible in the first case because of their photographs. - The Art Newspaper
His lawyer argued in court in 2019 that her client was merely “a drunk kid in a bright green ugly Christmas sweater” who was initially charged under the wrong law. - The New York Times
Most critics are impressed, the public likes it, but some observers have complaints: it looks like a mall, the gallery spaces are cramped, the big harbor-view windows distract from the art, the building will be expensive to operate … and the place doesn't even have a proper name yet. - The Guardian
A video posted on Twitter by a union “member and contractor coordinator” showed Teamsters and RISD students who were invited to attend the ratification vote applauding the results. - Boston Globe
AI has the potential to become a “digital teammate” that can encourage design literacy across the workplace. This technology is poised to expand everyone’s creative toolkit and will likely become a fixture in the modern workplace, as the way we communicate becomes increasingly reliant on visuals. - Fast Company
In the growing sector of the contemporary art world which focuses on environmental issues, participants in the art (artists, critics, and the general audience) disagree on the intention of each work of art: does it merit only aesthetic praise, or is it a successful work of climate activism? - 3 Quarks Daily
"In a five-year renovation, Het Loo" — the hunting lodge built by King William III to rival Louis XIV's Versailles — "has been lifted several millimetres, its courtyard dug and drained 10 metres deep, and a new concrete basin poured in to provide another 5,000 m2 of exhibition space." - The Guardian
Baumgarten’s theory of good poetry had a kind of absurd, computer-sciencey brilliance to it: good poetry is simply a large quantity of sensate thought. The trick to this absurd-sounding idea is that, to think a lot but all at once, we have to think associatively, self-referentially, vividly, temporally. - Aeon
One reason we keep missing the mark is that Vermeer’s era straddled two quite different ideas of what painting might be—the old one of religious and mythological allusions to be untangled, and the proto-modern one of a reflection of personal experience. - The Atlantic
High school art students painted a bakery at the owner's invitation - but "the painting was cited by the town code enforcement officer in June 2022 for violating the sign ordinance for its size. The painting depicts baked goods, which opponents say makes it not art ... but advertisement." - Christian Science Monitor
"Over 600 students, faculty, and Providence locals joined a walkout at the Rhode Island School of Art and Design last week in support of … the workers, represented by the Teamsters Local 251 chapter and spanning groundskeeping, operations, and maintenance, (who) went on strike April 3." - ARTnews
Boris Eldagsen says, "It was not about winning anything. ... I have been a photographer for 30 years before turning to AI and I’m very involved in the German scene in making workshops, lectures, and helping to draft up proposals for AI-related legislation." - Hyperallergic
The investigators "seized over 100 works from the Michèle Vasarely Foundation in San Juan, Puerto Rico, which houses pieces by the late artist Victor Vasarely and his son Jean-Pierre." The seizures are, depressingly, "just the latest in a long and bitter saga." - Hyperallergic
How Cecily Brown moved from working as a waitress, farmer's market worker, and animator to being a working painter celebrated at the Met. - The Observer (UK)
The Asia Society blamed a contractor for the blurring of two images in its show about the underworld. "We take responsibility for this error, but this was not an active choice to censor and is being corrected." - The New York Times
